Facultative dosage compensation of developmental genes on autosomes in Drosophila and mouse embryonic stem cells

Autor: Claudia Isabelle Keller Valsecchi, M. Felicia Basilicata, Giuseppe Semplicio, Plamen Georgiev, Noel Marie Gutierrez, Asifa Akhtar
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05642-2
Popis: In Drosophila the Male-Specific Lethal complex (MSLc) mediates upregulation of the single male X chromosome. Here the authors provide evidence that MSL2 also targets autosomal genes required for proper development and that MSL2 binds and similarly regulates mouse orthologues.
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